adiantar — Portuguese conjugation

to advance

Frequency#773Regular

Indicative

Present (Presente) Regular

The presente covers routines, states, and immediate future with adverbs like hoje or amanhã. One present form covers both English simple and progressive readings in most situations.

Ela estuda português todas as noites.

PronounPortugueseEnglish
euadiantoI advance
tuadiantasyou advance
vocêadiantayou advance
ele/elaadiantahe/she/it advances
nósadiantamoswe advance
vósadiantaisyou (pl.) advance
vocêsadiantamyou (pl.) advance
eles/elasadiantamthey advance

Preterite (Pretérito perfeito simples) Regular

The pretérito perfeito simples is a sharp, completed past. In European Portuguese it is the standard story-telling past; Brazilian usage often prefers the compound form in speech while keeping the simple for narrative and writing.

Ontem escreveu a carta inteira de uma vez.

PronounPortugueseEnglish
euadianteiI advanced
tuadiantasteyou advanced
vocêadiantouyou advanced
ele/elaadiantouhe/she/it advanced
nósadiantamoswe advanced
vósadiantastesyou (pl.) advanced
vocêsadiantaramyou (pl.) advanced
eles/elasadiantaramthey advanced

Imperfect (Pretérito imperfeito) Regular

The imperfeito describes past background, repeated actions, and how things used to be. Contrast it with the simple preterite for the “main event” line of a story.

Quando era criança, brincava na praia.

PronounPortuguese
euadiantava
tuadiantavas
vocêadiantava
ele/elaadiantava
nósadiantávamos
vósadiantáveis
vocêsadiantavam
eles/elasadiantavam

Conditional (Condicional) Regular

The condicional is for polite offers, soft questions, and hypothetical “would” outcomes, and it often closes a se + imperfeito do subjuntivo chain in formal style.

Você poderia me explicar outra vez?

PronounPortugueseEnglish
euadiantariaI would advance
tuadiantariasyou would advance
vocêadiantariayou would advance
ele/elaadiantariahe/she/it would advance
nósadiantaríamoswe would advance
vósadiantaríeisyou (pl.) would advance
vocêsadiantariamyou (pl.) would advance
eles/elasadiantariamthey would advance

Future (Futuro do presente) Regular

The futuro do presente states future facts; in everyday conversation you will often hear ir + infinitive or even the present with a time adverb instead of the synthetic future.

Amanhã faremos a reunião mais cedo.

PronounPortugueseEnglish
euadiantareiI will advance
tuadiantarásyou will advance
vocêadiantaráyou will advance
ele/elaadiantaráhe/she/it will advance
nósadiantaremoswe will advance
vósadiantareisyou (pl.) will advance
vocêsadiantarãoyou (pl.) will advance
eles/elasadiantarãothey will advance

Present perfect (Pretérito perfeito composto) Regular

The pretérito perfeito composto uses ter or haver plus the participle for a past that still touches the present or happens repeatedly up to now — a “have done” perfect with strong links to European norms.

Tenho pensado nisso há semanas.

PronounPortugueseEnglish
eutenho adiantadoI have advanced
tutens adiantadoyou have advanced
vocêtem adiantadoyou have advanced
ele/elatem adiantadohe/she/it has advanced
nóstemos adiantadowe have advanced
vóstendes adiantadoyou (pl.) have advanced
vocêstêm adiantadoyou (pl.) have advanced
eles/elastêm adiantadothey have advanced

Pluperfect (Mais-que-perfeito composto) Regular

The mais-que-perfeito composto is the pluperfect: an action was already finished before another past reference. It mirrors the English “had already”.

Já tinham saído quando chegámos.

PronounPortugueseEnglish
eutinha adiantadoI had advanced
tutinhas adiantadoyou had advanced
vocêtinha adiantadoyou had advanced
ele/elatinha adiantadohe/she/it had advanced
nóstínhamos adiantadowe had advanced
vóstínheis adiantadoyou (pl.) had advanced
vocêstinham adiantadoyou (pl.) had advanced
eles/elastinham adiantadothey had advanced

Conditional perfect (Condicional composto) Regular

The condicional composto expresses a counterfactual “would have” and appears with the right kind of if-clause in the subjunctive past for unreal conditions.

Teria aceite se tiveses avisado com antecedência.

PronounPortuguese
euteria adiantado
tuterias adiantado
vocêteria adiantado
ele/elateria adiantado
nósteríamos adiantado
vósteríeis adiantado
vocêsteriam adiantado
eles/elasteriam adiantado

Future perfect (Futuro composto) Regular

The futuro composto is the future-in-the-future: something will be finished before a later time. It is less frequent than the simple future but still useful for deadlines.

Até sexta, teremos lido tudo o relatório.

PronounPortugueseEnglish
euterei adiantadoI will have advanced
tuterás adiantadoyou will have advanced
vocêterá adiantadoyou will have advanced
ele/elaterá adiantadohe/she/it will have advanced
nósteremos adiantadowe will have advanced
vóstereis adiantadoyou (pl.) will have advanced
vocêsterão adiantadoyou (pl.) will have advanced
eles/elasterão adiantadothey will have advanced

Subjunctive

Present subjunctive (Conjuntivo presente) Regular

The present subjunctive appears after want, hope, fear, and impersonal triggers, and typically requires a new subject in the subordinate clause, just as in the other main Romance languages.

Espero que encontres o caminho fácil.

PronounPortuguese
euadiante
tuadiantes
vocêadiante
ele/elaadiante
nósadiantemos
vósadianteis
vocêsadiantem
eles/elasadiantem

Imperfect subjunctive (Conjuntivo pretérito imperf.) Regular

The imperfect subjunctive in se + subjunctive → condicional is the classic “if I were a rich man” line in European Portuguese, parallel to the Spanish -ra form.

Se tivesse mais tempo, aprenderia outro idioma.

PronounPortuguese
euadiantasse
tuadiantasses
vocêadiantasse
ele/elaadiantasse
nósadiantássemos
vósadiantásseis
vocêsadiantassem
eles/elasadiantassem

Other forms

Imperative (affirmative) (Imperativo afirmativo) Regular

The affirmative imperative in Portuguese is built with tu, você, nós, vós, and vocês forms; Brazilian norms favour você/vocês with third-person present verb shapes.

Diga a verdade, por favor.

PronounPortuguese
tuadianta
vocêadiante
ele/elaadiante
nósadiantemos
vósadiantai
vocêsadiantem
eles/elasadiantem

Imperative (negative) (Imperativo negativo) Regular

Negative commands require não plus the present subjunctive for each person, which is a distinctive feature compared to other Romance systems that reuse present indicative in some slots.

Não falemos com pressa, está tudo calmo.

PronounPortuguese
tunão adiantes
vocênão adiante
ele/elanão adiante
nósnão adiantemos
vósnão adianteis
vocêsnão adiantem
eles/elasnão adiantem